Meeting Aims to Snuff Out Teen Tobacco Use

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CHARLOTTE — Kids are not supposed to get their hands on tobacco until they are 18 years old, but they do. In a town meeting Friday in Charlotte, the talk was about finding a solution to keep tobacco away from them.

More than 800 teens, public health officials, teachers and school administrators from across the state are taking part in the two-day meeting at the Charlotte Convention Center.

For several hours Friday, students from 75 North Carolina high schools talked about teenagers using tobacco. Getting them to stop is the hard part..